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Armed forces growth
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33 |
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[46th of 132]
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Armed forces personnel
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198,000 |
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[27th of 166]
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Arms imports > constant 1990 US$
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32,000,000 constant 1990 US$
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[49th of 100]
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Branches
Royal Armed Forces (Forces Armees Royales, FAR): Royal Moroccan Army (includes Air Defense), Navy (includes Marines), Royal Moroccan Air Force (Al Quwwat al Jawyiya al Malakiya Marakishiya; Force Aerienne Royale Marocaine) |
Conscription
Conscription exists (FWCC). |
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expenditure > % of central government expenditure
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13.69 %
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[12th of 88]
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expenditure > % of GDP
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4.28 %
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[10th of 145]
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Expenditures > Dollar figure
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$2,305,600,000.00 |
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[28th of 111]
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Gulf War Coalition Forces
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13,000 |
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[7th of 30]
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Manpower > Availability > Females
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9,080,830 |
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[32nd of 162]
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Manpower > Availability > Males
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9,152,580 |
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[34th of 210]
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Manpower > Availability > Males age 15-49
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8,595,800 |
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[34th of 175]
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Manpower > Fit for military service > Males age 15-49
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5,529,267 |
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[35th of 174]
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Manpower > Military age
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18 years of age |
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Manpower > Reaching military age annually > Males
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355,479 |
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[33rd of 226]
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personnel
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251,000
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[25th of 170]
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personnel > % of total labor force
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2.26 %
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[31st of 168]
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Service age and obligation
18 years of age for compulsory and voluntary military service; conscript service obligation - 18 months |
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US military exports
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$10,188.00 thousand |
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[18th of 109]
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Weapon holdings
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2,187,000 |
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[37th of 137]
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SOURCES: calculated on the basis of data on armed forces from IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; IISS (International Institute for Strategic Studies). 2001. The Military Balance 2001-2002. Oxford: Oxford University Press; World Development Indicators database; All CIA World Factbooks 18 December 2003 to 18 December 2008; Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Geneva, Switzerland, 1997. Data collected from the nations concerned, unless otherwise indicated. Acronyms: Amnesty International (AI); European Council of Conscripts Organizations (ECCO); Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC); International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHFHR); National Interreligious Service Board for Conscientious Objectors (NISBCO); Service, Peace and Justice in Latin America (SERPAJ); War Resisters International (WRI); World Council of Churches (WCC); "Gulf War Veterans: Measuring Health" by Lyla M. Hernandez, Jane S. Durch, Dan G. Blazer II, and Isabel V. Hoverman, Editors; Committee on Measuring the Health of Gulf War Veterans, Institute of Medicine. Published by The National Academies Press 1999; CIA World Factbook, 28 July 2005; Study by David Lochhead and James Morrell; available from the Center for International Policy; Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Morocco, Kingdom of Morocco, Al Mamlakah al Maghribiyah, Al Maghrib
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